The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1875, Page 4

; 4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, YEBRUARY 12, 1875-—-WITH SUPPLEMENT, bande” His Hosalieney’s deplete Vien | past week has shown that the ball at the Tere | their relatives, woo were forbidden even" tq NEW YORK HERALD | "wv ser's, ‘Recouceey mena | & BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. SAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and efter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorn Hzaarp will be | went free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, Four cents per copy. An- ual subsemption price 61. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your | Hernawp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received sod forwarded on the same terms as in New York. In the early days of the English Alliance with Louis Napoleon, when the strangeness of his conduct puzzled the English mind and filled it with uneasy misgivings, the laureate, Mr. Tennyson, published a little poem, of which we are able to recall these lines: — It te true we have a faithful ally, But only the devil knows what he means. A perplexity like that expressed by the English poet is felt by the republican party in relation to the unaccountable conduct of their “faithful ally,"’ His Excellency. The parallel may not hold at all points, for, as somebody has quaintly ssid, comparisons do not go upon all fours. But there are some obvious | points of resemblance. Ulysses Simpson | Grant, like Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, had a sudden and surprising rise to political emi- nence, which belied every rational calculation which could have been founded on their previous condition. Ulysses, when he was a clerk in his father’s tannery in Galena, had as little prospect of becoming President of the United States as Louis had of becoming Emperor of France when he was a State prisoner at Ham, or when he smuggled himself into Boulogne with his tame eagle. Ulysses, hike Louis, is one of the most taciturn of men, the Sphinx of American as Louis was of French politics, In ambition the resem- blance is as close as that between two peas by the suggestion that he has not penetrated | the great political secret. The thonght bas not yet struck him that His Excellency is merely playing into the hands of the Henatp, and trying to aid it in convincing | the country that it is expedient for the President to resign. Instead of wringing | our principal | from a northerly course over the republican party in consequence | region to @ southerly his hands over the doom which impends of Grant's astounding escapades Mr. Wilson should “lift up his head and rejoice” at the evident intention of His Excellency to reconcile the country to his early retirement from office. If all the newspapers in the United States had persistently repeated the advice of the Hegatp they could not have done so much to make the idea of resignation popular as. His Excellency has accomplished by his strange and otherwise unaccountable course. It is, doubtless, wise and sagacious for a high public functionary to seek a strong public in- dorsement of his acts, and if His Excellency really intends to take our advice and resign he is evincing incomparable skill in the sure and effective methods he takes for pre- cluding all differences of opinion as to the eminent propriety and public utility of the, act, We tender His Excellency our respectful | thanks for his efficient and sustained co-: } operation. VOLUME Mes -sceceeeeeeeeeseeeseeerseeeeeeeeNO, 43 | from the same pod. In political See Mr. Washburne’s Denial. —— | His Excellency Ulysses bas never been #/ A on | ‘ print. elsewhere this morning a letter; AMUSEMENTS T0- - NIGHT. member of the republican party, only its from the Hon. E. B. Washburne, our iainmmnestipiponen “ally;’’ but whether s ‘faithful ally’ in any i . than that ienninad a Minister in Paris, sent to us by cable, Firetree — piemana | tber ies denying, in the fullest, frankest and oth My closes at 00 P.M Mat r A A Le F vise at 1:0 wT rmeati i thon 0 ae rh; closes at t iy % NEL sins s , NiPPO DROME, pam ayy ent una Foarh avenge —Arwracen and evening, at ry oo el Pm Bayard oo ah Ts cept THR ARIETY. a5 Hy ie closes at 10:65 3s a Broadwry .; choees ot 10:0 FIFTH AYE! THEA’ pantie hese re" pm» 8, Tener, HOY tom anes LYCEUY THE. SEW MAG. parece emda ra Maren BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, ESMREL Soars I's Pk, closes tk Dan presets street. SFOS ATE Sween, ater. closes at 1045 P.M. wae ra BLS, Broadway. sea PRAYER, at 8 P. M.; closes at | Wao¥.M” Edwin F. Thorne. BOOTH'S THEATR: hey a ee street Sixth evenes.— | BERR Y"G, TERE A chon ae SAN FRAXCIRC EENSTRULsi, ars ros. ast ane ge—stono | ROBINSON TA\ ith Sxtecarh street —BEGON! DU ARE, ot 6 P.M; Bloses at 1046 P.M. Mr. Maccabe, ACADEMY 4 oes, ot Twenty-third stree TSN) OF Watek COLOR Pals from 9.4. M. to SP. M.. and trom 6. M. to IEATRE, ; cloase at 10.90 P.M. Broadway.. ~vaRIniY, Broaqway. ra ALck THEA — SHAUG wr. M Mr. Boucicault BROOKLYN THEATRE, ee ye street —AS YOU LIKE If, at@P. M.: closes mF. M. _itme Rousby. Trae. ‘ML; closes at WITH | SU PPLEMENT.| NEW TORK, FRIDAY, FEBRU Any o «78, 7 From our reports this morning the probabilities | sre that the weather to-day will be clear and | cold. RN ln ese ae Se } Watt Srazzt Yzestzrpar.— Stocks were un- wettled and depressed. Foreign exchange was | likewise unsteady. Gold was firm at 114§. | Money without new feature. Tur Ick BrocxapE was so complete in the | East River last night that after eleven o'clock | the ferries ceased running, causing considera- | ble inconvenience to the numerous travellers | benighted in Gotham. A Senator rnom Frorma was elected yes- | | terday after a long and fatiguing contest. Mr. E. W. Jones, the successful candidate, is another accession to the democratic strength in the Senate. He succeeds Abijat Gilbert, a republican, who was born in Otsego county, in this State, and removed to St. Augustine after the war for the health of his family. Mr. Jones has: his reputation as a statesman yet to make. Tue Interoceanic Surver.—The survey- img parties sent by the United States govern- ment to report on the most practicable route for an interoceanic canal to unite the Atlantic and Pacific, have reached their destination and begun their labors. As will be seen by the interesting communications published in another column, a small party under the command of Lieutenant Collins will survey the Atrato route, while the main expedition makes the survey of the Panama route. Tuz Frexen SENATE. —There 4 is yet hope for representative governent in France By a vote of the National Assem- bly it has been decided that the Senate shall be elected by the people. This means that France will not submit to the personal government of any man. The Senate will act as a constitutional check on the lower branch of the Legislature, and will exercise an au- thority equal to that given by the American constitation to our own Senate. It will be no longer a resting place for lackeys and pen- sioners, but the controlling and regulating power of the State. Under the Empire to be a Senator was a disgrace, but the best intel- lects of France will be proud to sit in the new body. From this new amendment constitu- tional government in France derives new guar- antees. Itis by no means improbable that under the new constitution the Republic may be definitely established. Freed trom the danger of Communes and the scarcely less degrading rule of Napoleonism, France would soon re- cover her place among the first nations of Eurove. which the poet laureate employed this phrase, | may perhaps differ. A natign goes abroad’ most comprehensive manner, the story pub- lished in one of our contemporaries to the effect that he had received ten thousand dollars for his official influence in placing the bonds of Fremont’s swindling Pacific Rail- way on the French Bourse. Mr. Washburne informs us that these bonds were placed on the Bourse a month before he arrived in Paris ; that he exposed their fraudulent character and so reported to the government, and that for this he was denounced by General Fremont as a Minister discrediting American enter- prise. Our own recollection of these circum- stances certainly corroborates the letter of Mr. Washburne. We are glad the Minister so promptly destroys these aspersions upon his good name. The fame of Mr. Washburne is dear to us, at a time especially when there is so much scandal and looseness in public life. We have always honored and trusted him for his courage, his frankness, his patriotism and his Roman virtue in assailing corruption. This letter only justifies our trust, and it will be especially grateful to the American people. | is a question on which republican opinions and seeks an ‘“‘ally” only when conscious that its separate strength is not equal to some emergency, and a political party goes outside of its own ranks to pick up a candidate only trom similar motives of self-distrust. An ally | consults only his, own interest, as tho republican party has found to its cost. His Excellency is pursuing his ambitious views by methods which astound the other party to the alliance and cause true and tried republicans like Vice President Wil- | son to wring their hands in torturing amaze- ment. His Excellency is not only a Sphinx, | but a stupendous political puzzle, and “only the devil knows what he means.” His Excellency has cut loose, not only from consultations with the recognized and ac- credited republican leaders, but from the advice of his own Cabinet. When his creature, Belknap, telegraphed to New Or- leans that ‘the President and all of us” warmly indorsed the wild utterances of General Sheridan, it afterward,came to light that His Excellency alone had directed the | approval, and that ‘‘all of us’’ were not com sulted. And it now appears that the astound- ing Arkansas Message, which caused thought- ful republicans to ‘‘stare and gasp,’’ was pre- pared and sent to the Senate without even consulting so abject and complying a Secre- tary as Belknap, His Excellency deigning to seek no other adviser than that paragon of pro- | bity and pink of statesmen, ‘‘Boss” Shepherd. Mr. Wood’s Speech on the Tax Bill. Mr. Fernando Wood has made a strong speech, full of valuable statistics and infor- mation, on the new Tax bill now pending in the House. It is his opinion that an increase of taxes is quite unnecessary for meeting any real wants of the Treasury, and is especially inopportune at this time, when the business of the country should not be subjected to new burdens. One of the principal pleas for ad- ditional revenue is founded on the necessity for meeting the requirements of the sinking fund. Mr. Wood explodes that plea by show- ing that three successive Secretaries of the | It is no uncommon thing for people to ask | advice when they only desire approbation, and as His Excellency knew precisely what he IsGs Open | a OPO wanted be fitly took counsel of a man about whose complaisance there could be no doubt. Had be consulted Secretary Fish His Excel- lency would have encountered a strong remon- strance, for Mr. Fish has some of the attri- | butes of a statesman.. Had he consulted even Attorney General Williams he would have | been bothered with pertinacious objections, | for although Mr. Williams is ordinarily sub- Treasury, beginning with.Mr. Chase, made no provision for the sinking fund at all, and that Mr. Boutwell followed the precedent they set during the earlier part of his administra- tion. Such provision may as properly be sus- pended now as at any former time, As soon as business revives there will be ¢ sur- plus revenue under the existing tax law, and | @ented to a Message which publicly repudiated | and although we have a cable under the heav- | struck with the fitness of the advice tendered | despatches yesterday, Mr. Wheeler, | perbaps, revolts at following the suggestion and moderate. The conservatives offe the sinking fund can be made good out if that surplus. The net ordinary expenses pf the government, which were one hundrel and fifty-three million dollars in 1872, wee in- | creased to one hundred and eighty mailions in 1873 and to one hundred and ninet-four millions in 1874—an increase of thirf-one | servient enough he never could have con- the legal advice he gave last May, which the President made the basis of his Arkansas proc- | lamation rejecting the claims of Brooks and | | declaring that Baxter was the lawtul Governor | of the State. Knowing the kind of advice he wanted His Excellency took nobody but | “Boss” Shepherd into his confidence, and, supported by so remarkable a statesman, he | ventured on the most egregiously self-stulti- | | fying act ever perpetrated by s man in s0 exalted a station. “Only the devil knows what he means ;" in 1872, and if they were reduced by wise economy to the same amount there wold be no sort of necessity for imposing addtional a fund for the military subjugation South his wish ought not to be gratifi ing Atlantie and one under the vexed waters of the Gulf, telegraphic communication has The Rejected Louisiana Comp: Our New Orleans despatches this m Majesty's dominions, and we must substitate | adopted by the conservative members speculative conjecture for authentic intelli- | Louisiana Legislatara and presen gence. The most plausible hypothesis we are | the committee of Congress just able to form is that His Excellency has been | their departure. As was stated it him by the Hrnaxn, and that before taking (Chairman of the committee, the decisive step of resigning he wishes to pack from Mobile that create a unanimous public opinion in favor of | tion was not accepted. The terms our friendly advice. His Excellency’s pride, | proposed compromise seem fair, conci of @ newspaper, however solicitous for his | jeave Kellogg in the undisturbed po: fame and devoted to his interests. He sees of his office so long as he continued the propriety and feels the nobleness of such | recognized by the President. They sti an act, but he is not quite willing to perform fat all the conservative members it until be makes sure of the indorsing ac- | Legislature who were really elected shot clamations of the whole body of his unanimous | admitted to seats, and that the fellow citizens, Everybody will agree that he | should then organize de novo. These could not have done more to reconcile the | main features of the offered com country to our advice than His Excellency wyich would have left the republicans has succeeded in doing since it was respect- fully tendered for bis serene consideration. of thanks for bis truly valuable co-operation, | tion of 1874. It isto be deplored this since we do not wish to lend countenance to adjustment, founded on mutual concefons, any suspicion that there isa settled under- and giving promise of tranquillity tq dis- standing between us We solemnly aver, in tracted State, has been rejected by thos who spite of strong appearances to the contrary, could have given it effect. As it is that we had no previous consultation with | wounds remain open with no pros aod all that ‘he bas since done to bring the years. country into our views has proceeded en- | tirely from himself. We do not deny that we wonld have cheerfully consented to be His Exceliency’s organ in this matter if he bad Tae Bercwen Triat.—The cross-exajna- | tion of Mr. Tilton was continued yest ‘Mr. Evarts devoted his attention to elugat- ing *‘the trne story,’’ about which s0 ch natural curiosity is felt by the outside puic. Mr. Evarts conducted the examination th | 5 invited us; bat if we had beld that position and had played the part of s confidential pat ti a or pr ae great skill, and by the time he has done fre | it a ang would paw them, we | Will be scarcely any further chance of a bw | inten q stify them, stetement. The matter will have been @- pletely exhaasted. do not see how His Excellency could have more faithfully supported us. All of bis noted public acts snce we firkt proffered our triendly Parsmpest Panvo has suc ceeded f in rouhg | insurgents im the nortlof | suggestion have been caleulated to aid us im | completely the convin 10 country that our advice is as | Peru. He bas returned to Lima to reshe | reasonable as it is timely. Almost every day | his duties of Chief Magistrate. Brigds, | His Excellency adds some fresh proof to the taking advantage of the civil war, are opht- | growing accumulation in f {bis making ing near the capital, but we have no dibt | way for the moderate and us republi- the energetic President will deal pro: ly | / can statesman who would succeed bim on bis with these marauders now that his han © | | retirement, and who is said to “wring bis | free out; and another, to be fal- lowed by all steamers coming in; and we farther suggested that this course should not be wider than twenty miles, and that some cove- nant or treaty, or, if necessary, a law, should be forced upon the companies, compelling them to send their steamers over the route i of another. So that, instead of sending our steamers out singly to wander over # forlorn ocean, they would go in convoys, thereby narrowing very much the chances of disaster. These suggestions, which were adopted at the time by some of. the steamers, also attracted the attention of the American Social Science Association, which met in May, 1874. Pro- fessor Peirce, of Harvard, addressed that dis- tinguished body on the subject, seeking to arouse public attention to the rapidly increns- ing perils and the magnitude of sea travelling. “For,” as he well remarked, ‘when the num- ber of steamers shall be tenfold what it is to- day, which will occur in the next generation, each steamer will be exposed to ten times the peril, and, as their number is tenfold in- creased, the number of collisions will be one hundred-fold their present number.’’ In accordance with the suggestions of the Professor a committee was appointed, under the presidency of Mr. R. B. Forbes, of Boston, and composed of men like Charles H. Marshall, George W. Blunt, William B. Mor- gan, R. H. McCurdy and other eminent citi- zens of New York, Philadelphia and Balti- more. The committee have considered the subject and agreed upon a report. In this report they discuss the routes proposed by Professor Maury, Mr. Wyman, Mr. Blunt and by the Inman, Cunard and German steamship lines. They object to Commodore Wyman’s route because it approaches too near Cape Race. The Cunard route, which passes the meridian of 50, north of latitude 43, the committee regard as going too far south, cut of the most direct route, and too near to the route eastward, The plan suggested by Mr. Blunt is almost like that of Professor Maury. The committee thinks it would be better to make a compromise between the plans of Maury and Blunt on the one side and the Cunard route on the other. At the same time it very wisely says that itis of very little consequence which route is adopted, so long as the steamship companies determine upon one course and respect it. “So long,” says the report, ‘‘as we avoid too near approach to the virgin rocks of Cape Race and Nan- tucket Shoals and keep our tracks to the west as practically as on our fishing grounds, it matters little which we adopt.” It suggests that Congress should be asked to appoint a commissioner to proceed to Europe and en- deavor to get the concurrent action of all steamship lines—a commissioner who could go with authority. We agree with the committee that it is of | very little consequence which route is ac- cepted, so long as it is a definite route, and is accepted by all the lines as to the trac path across the ocean. Furthermore, if the steam- ship companies do not yield to public opinion, and agree among themselves upon a matter which would redound to their own advan- tage, then Congress should endeavor to have the matter made a question of treaty and ne- gotiation. The government of France, Eng- land, Germany and America have certainly the power to compel the steamers which sail under their flags, and which enjoy their pro- tection, to take every measure to insure the safety of their passengers and cargo. We are glad that this subject has attracted the atten- tion of so eminent a body as the Social Scienee Association, and we trust that Congress will attentively heed the recommendations of this committee. Winter Sports and Pleasures. Although Lent has put the seal of prohibi- tion upon feasting and merriment the balls and other enjoyments of the season are not yet ended. The fashionable people who always make the grand Charity Balla sort of carnival preceding the season of fasting and self-denial this year made it gayer and grander than ever before, and those who find no obstacles to enjoyment during the com- memorative fast, from their religious convic- tions, disported themselves at the Liederkranz last night in all the fantastic glories of former years, making it, as it always has been, a great annual carnival. The Liederkranz, however, marks a pause in the splendors and festivi- ties of the season, and we may now look back at what belongs to the past while we recount the enjoyments of the winter. It is seldom that the social season in this city was spent with less ostentation and yet with so much real pleasure as was the case this year, and many of the enjoyments which yet re- main are not barred by the rules of any re- ligious society. For instance, there is no pro- hibition to any of the outdoor exercises which form feature in metropolitan enjoyments, | and never before was there such superb skat- ing as there has been this winter. It is true the thaw and rain of yesterday destroyed fora day or two the magnificent ice fields which were to be found everywhere in the neighborhood of the city ; but the backbone of the winter is | not yet broken, and we yet anticipate some | splendid skating. For a weck before the rain New York rivalled St. Petersburg in winter sports, clear as the ice itselfan evening in the Park is a keener pleasure than the highest enjoy- ments of the ballroom, and it is the general hope of the young and joyous that the ice race is a groater boon even than the grandest | deliver messages from counsel. These flagran{ With an atmosphere as crisp and | ball at the Academy, Champagne in Politics. Our Albany festivities have reached 8 grace- ful climax. We read that the other evening there was a private dinner party at the man- sion of @ distinguished lady in Albany. Among the guests were Governor Tilden, Senator Kernan, ex-Governor Seymour, Lieu- tenant Governor Dorsheimer, Smith M. Weed, Joseph Warren, the great democratic editor of the western part of the State, and our illustrious and venerable townsman, Mr. William Cullen Bryant. “Mr. Bryant de- livered 8 speech,” says the writer, ‘closing with a toast, nominating Samuel J. Tilden as the next democratic candidate for President. This was drunk standing and with much enthusiasm. Governor Tilden responded, neither accepting nor declining the proffered honor, but holding himself subject to the call of his party.” This graceful, poetic and en- thusiastic tableau is a fitting culmination to the festivities of the past few days. Governor Tilden bas paid Mr. Bryant the great- est honor in his power. He has sum- moned him to Albany; he has made him the guest of the Executive Mansion; he has bidden the honored, the learned, the wealthy and the beautiful to come and do him homage. He has been publicly welcomed by the Senate and the House. The honors that were showered on the gray hairs of Voltaire have been repeated upon Mr. Bryant, but we trust that, unlike Voltaire, he will not be smothered in the roses, This was an historical tableau. There was Senator Kernan, fresh from the honors of victory in the Senatorial contest; Governor Seymonr, like Cincinnatus, returned from his farm, to do honor to the poet of the Repub- lic; Governor Tilden, now on the ascending wave of political power and prosperity; Mr. Dorsheimer, who is believed to be by some of our correspondents the coming De Witt Clin- ton of New York, and who probably stood in awe of the greatness which surrounded him. There was Mr. Bryant, who began writing poems when Jefferson was President, and now, fifty years after, is in the active pursuits of a vigorous manhood, What more graceful than that Mr. Bryant should nominate Gov- ernor Tilden for President, and what specta- cle more beautiful than Governor Tilden standing, like a coy maiden, covered with blushes, ‘neither accepting ‘nor declining the proffered honor,’’ but holding himself open to the demand of his party? At the same time we think that Governor Tilden made a mistake. He should have immediately taken another glass of champagne and nomi- nated Mr. Bryant for the Presidency; for we are nowin the time when honor is paid to age. In Philadelphia Mr. Binney, at ninety-five, is o leading, active spirit in public affairs. Henry ©. Carey, at eighty-five, directs the politics of Pennsylvania. In New York Thurlow Weed, at seventy-cight, is the most vigilant and efficient politician of the State. Governor Dix, who served in the war of 1812, has only just retired from one office and is believed by his friends to be in training for another and a higher candidacy. In Balti- more Reverdy Johnson is the leader of the Bar, while in Washington Judge Black is a brilliant and active political writer. The leader of the Senate is Mr. Cameron, who is & younger man at seventy-seven than two- thirds of his colleagues. And so we might continue this list, citing Governor Tilden him- self, already advanced in years, to shoy that we are beginning to pay due respect to the wisdom and experience of age. ‘This being the case, what more natural than that Governor Tilden should nominate Mr. Bryant to the Presidency? Mr. Bryant has only just celebrated his eightieth birthday, but this by no means proves that he is an old | man. In fact, we know few younger men in | public life. Few men, indeed, would be will- ing to stand the perils of a journey in mid- winter to encounter the combined honor of two legislative bodies and the overpowering | courtesies of the Executive Mansion. Now that Mr. Bryant has proclaimed Governor Tilden | as his candidate for President Mr. Tilden should proclaim Mr. Bryant for the same office. There is no reason for narrowing this controversy. New York is ripe in great men. We do not want to go to the Convention carrying one lonely candidate as our choice. Let us have twenty candidates, a hundred if necessary, and let us show the democratic party, when it assembles in convention, what the centennial year of American independence has produced in New York in the way of democratic statesmen. Rarm Traysitr mm THs LeorsuaTors.— Some attention has been called to the bill in- troduced into the Senate at Albany making provision for rapid transit in the city of New York. We shall be only too glad to approve any measure that looks toward rapid transit. But the bill in question, introduced by Sena- tor Hugh Moore, contains so many mistakes, falls so far short of what is due to the city, and is virtually such a revival of the old Tammany system of legislation, that we trust it will not be passed. In the first place it violates the express provisions of the consti- tution. In article 1., section 18, it is ex- pressly provided that the Legislature shall not pass a local or private bill ‘granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railway tracks;" or to any private corporation any ‘exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.'’ It also: forbids the construction of any street railroad, except upon conditions which the bill of Senator Moore does not fulfil. These consti- tutional restrictions render the bill of the Senator absolutely worthless, and it looks to us like a job of the old Tammany and Tweed school, intended to forbid and not advance rapid transit. Our Prectous Potick DEPARTMENT, as will | | be seen in another part of this paper, has got | | itself into a scrape, which may cost the Com- missioners and Superintendent their offices. Last Friday night three men were arrested on | suspicion of being concerned in a robbery of | | the Adams Express Company. There is a | | strict provision of law requiring police offi- | cers to bring every person they may arrest at | once before a Police Court, if there is one in session; and if not (as happens when arrests are made in the night), as soon as the Court | opens ou the following day. These three | prisoners were kept confined in cells for two violations of law were perpetrated with thi full knowledge and. consent of the Police Commissioners. When, at last, the prisoners were brought before a magistrate, one of them was forthwith discharged, as there was no shadow of proof against him. Mr. A. Oakey Hall, their counsel, has presented charges to the Mayor against the Police Commissioners and officers, and has offered bis free services in establishing their guilt by proof, It is un- derstood that Mayor Wickham will investi. gate the charges at an early day. It is high time that the abuse of authority complained of be stopped, and if Mr. Hall’s charges are sustained by evidence the Mayor will have an additional reason for reconstructing the Poe lice Board. The Comedy of Usurpation. The progress of usurpation in Spain which began with the accession of Prince Alfonso to the throne continues in interest and variety. The young King is tired of his ‘military ex- periences,’’ and, leaving ‘‘the command of the armies’ to a real general, is on his way to Madrid. Among other duties is that of respect to Espartero, the venerable warrior and statesman, now in retirement at Logrofio. The “liberality” of the now government is shown by its decree exiling Sefior Zorilla for Proposing to form an opposition party. Sefior Zorilla is a Spanish statesman and a monarchist, who was Prime Minister undet Amadeus when the Italian King abdicated. He has never been a republican, and we do not believe that he is a republican now. He pro- posed to found a party that would be to the new government what the liberal party is in the House of Commons—a natural proceeding under a ‘‘constitutional” government—the form which the King desired when he was “interviewed’’ by the correspondents in Paris, He has shown the sincerity of his liberalism by banishing from Spain one of its most con spicuous and honored statesmen. There is one beautiful fact in the career of the young King which has not been properly appreciated. When Isabella left Madrid His Majesty was a.lad about ten years old. After the flight the horses and royal equipage and many articles of the royal household were sold, just as M. Thiers disposed of the effecta of Napoleon, including the furniture and the contents of the Tuileries wine cellar. Among other things, a black pony, owned by the young Prince, was sold to a son of General Prim, o lad about the age of His Majesty. The officer who conducted this sale of the pony and other royal possessions—a meritorious man in his way—has since been presented to His Majesty as a candidate for some dignity; but the Prince who rules “by the grace of God” declined to approve the appointmeat. The officer had “sold the black pony ta Johnny Prim," and the King would ‘‘neves forgive him!” This is about as much as could be cxpected from a Prince who leaves his tops and veloci pedes to become the ruler of a great country. It is an amusing comment on the whole business of royalty. A criticism of a more bitter character could be made when we note that Germany, Russia and Austria have combined to recoge nize Alfonso before his tecognition by the Cortes. In other words, thesesgreat Powers would have nothing to do with the govern ment of Castelar, the Republic, sustained by the vote of the nation, expressing the sow ereignty of the people; but they hasten te recognize a usurpation which places upon the throne the half-grown son of a foolish mother, who signifies his accession to power by an act of vengeance upon the official who dared te sell his black pony to ‘Johnny Prim !” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, There is complaint in France of superabundance of coin incirculation, Generat William F. Bartlett, of Massacnusetts, is Staying at the New York Hotel. Twenty-six different kinds of breech-! loaders are Dow in use in European armies, Professor William P. Blake, of New Haven, ie ree aiding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor John 1. Hoffman arrived at the Clarendon Hotel last evening from Albany. Mr. Lucius Crooker, United States Vice Consul at Panama, is stopping at the Union Square Hotel, Mr. Frank H. Smith has been recognized as United States Consular Agent at Bocas del Torre, Mayor N. F. Graves and Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, are sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “An infallible cure for consumption’’—That’s what a French doctor says of the meal of our In- dian corn. Dr. Rafael Nunez is the favorite candidate of the Coast States of Colombia for tne next President of the Union. Lachaud the younger proposes to prove that dictatorial government 1s a normal political com. ition in France. The exequatur has been conceded to Mr. T, J. Potts as Consular Agent of the United States at Izabal, Guatemala. Representative Hooper, of Massachusetts, is Still critically 1 with pneumonia, but isin a more comfortable condition than heretofore, They have determined by experiments im France that trees are killed with great rapidity by very small portions of common gas escaping from the pipes and affecting the soil. Bishop-elect DeKoven arrived in Chicago from Racine last night, but he declines to sgate what are his intentions in regard to the acceptance of the position to wich he has been elected. In order to promote relations with the Holy See @ Nicaraguan Legation is to be established at Rome. Won José de Marcoleta has been named Minister Plenipotentiary of Nicaragua ad hoe. Protessor D. C. Gliman, ol the University of California, has accepted tne Presidency ot the Johns Hopkins University, for the establishment of which the late Johns Hopkins, of Baltimore, made @ bequest of $2,100,000. Parts papers seem to fancy that the railroads running from Spain through France will have to have some extra trains im order to carry all the orders of the Golden Fleece that Alfonso wil) shortly distribute through Europe. Mr. Horace White, formerly of the Chicago Tre une, 8 bride, formerly Miss MacDougal, satied tor Europe from elty yesterday. Alfred Coles, publisher of the jcago Tribune, sails alse | for Barope with his family on Saturday, The Panama Railroad and the Pacific Mail are again under separate management on the Isthmna The change took place on February 1. Mr. F. 0, White, who arrived from the North, ts the new Superintendent, and relieves Mr. D. M. Corwine, Another old watch! Coquelin, @ Paris actor, bought in @ bric &-brac shop im Paris, an old watch which attracted his attention as a curi-e osity, and which proves by the inscription to have been the property of Molitre—a gift from his uncie, M. Crepy. Mr. J. B. Beck, member from Kentucky, fel down jast evening on a slippery pavement tn Washington and fractured bis arm at the right wrist, both bones breaking. He was fortunately near the Ebbitt House, where he lives, and he soon received the attention of asurgeon. This or three days in the hope of extorting con- accident will prevent his attendance in the Hou | may be renewed, for the experience of the | fessions. They were denied intercourse with | vernave. ‘Until Bear the close of the session,